Pike Road Pinot Noir Willamette Valley Oregon 2022

Pike Road
Pinot Noir 2022
Willamette Valley Oregon

Oregon, with its cool, Burgundian climate, is probably the best place in the New World to grow the Pinot Noir grape. Pike Road Pinot Noir is composed of grapes from Pike Road's own fields supplemented by some other winegrowers' fruit, all hand-picked, hand-sorted and 100% Willamette Valley, the largest "AVA" (American Viticultural Area) in Oregon. The wine ferments in stainless steel tanks and is then aged for 10 months in 100% French oak barrels.

Pike Road Wines launched their first bottles on the market in 2016. Behind the enterprise we find the Campbell family, who planted their first fields in 1974 and at the same time started the now well-known winery, Elk Cove.

The idea behind Pike Road Wines is to sell high quality wine made from grapes grown exclusively in the Willamette Valley, but at prices that are more accessible than what you normally see in the area. The new initiative was named after the road that snakes through the lush valley and continues deep into the Oregon Coast Range – the mountains that are so important to the Willamette Valley's favorable growing conditions.  

At Pike Road, you have no reservations about buying grapes from other winegrowers, as long as the quality is top notch. On the contrary, they want to do their part to ensure that the small farmers and family businesses around the Willamette Valley can survive, and in many cases the Campbell family has had decades of working with these farmers! Therefore, several of the wines are made from both Pike Road's own grapes and batches from selected farmers in the area. They also emphasize that this "multi-vineyard" method can in some cases produce a more complex wine.

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